Sex abuse of child actors in Hollywood organised, common: Elijah Wood

Elijah Wood, best known for starring in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, said paedophiles had been protected by powerful figures in the movie business and that abuse was probably still taking place.

Actor Elijah Wood says Hollywood has its own Jimmy Savile-style high-powered paedophile ring at work waiting to be exposed. The former child star, who is best known for starring in the Lord of the Rings trilogy as hobbit Frodo Baggins, said paedophiles had been protected by powerful figures in the movie business and that abuse was probably still taking place.

Elijah Wood said child actors had been regularly “preyed upon” at parties by industry figures.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Wood said he had been protected from abuse as he was growing up by his mother, but that other child actors had been regularly “preyed upon” at parties by industry figures, reports telegraph.co.uk.

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He said: “You all grew up with Savile - Jesus, it must have been devastating. Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood. It was all organised. There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind. There is a darkness in the underbelly - if you can imagine it, it’s probably happened.”

Wood shared that the abuse was allowed to continue because victims “can’t speak as loudly as people in power.” “That’s the tragedy of attempting to reveal what is happening to innocent people,” he said.